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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1918
Page
8
A collage of excerpts from letters to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in Washington. The notes show family pleas for allotments and support, imagined personal crises, and a political announcement by George M. Ball seeking the office of Clerk of the District Court.
A letter from a soldier's mother in St Paul responding to Woodrow Wilson's appeal for electing Democratic congressmen provokes a regional uproar. She describes herself as a Republican mother whose son fights in France and pleads for unity, asking how a nation can send soldiers to war while denying them a voice in governance.
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